2013-06-02
Shaenon: Over on the Skin Horse forums, Ed posted this touching study of Nick and…Nick. Nick’s situation is kind of weird. Anyway, as I’m sure everyone is well aware by now, I adore Nick, and seeing other people’s interpretations of Nick-driving-Violet is awesome. Thank you!
Channing: Look me in the eye and tell me that you wouldn’t be at least a little tempted to do the same thing, in Nick’s shoes.
I’d have a bunch of memory chips in the other hand, and would be wondering where I plug them in.
Nick scratching his own itch…
I’d be using electrodes.
Did everything just smell purple?
(TUNE: “Have You Ever Seen The Rain”, Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Floating in this golden tank,
I got Doctor Lee to tank …
But now … I have got a body!
Robot frame is full of fail,
Missing all the fine detail,
What’s more, workmanship is shoddy!
[CHORUS:]
Hey, tell me bro,
Have you ever poked your brain?
Nudged it like so?
Have you ever poked your brain,
Floating ’round in the cargo bay?
Clever art was drawn by Ed …
Which one, Shaenon never said!
There’s lots! This one’s the “Mad Genius”!
Though we share a common name,
People, we are not the same!
There are … diff’rences between us!
[repeat CHORUS]
yes… it was i, you’ve found me out!
Edddd, as usual, another beautiful piece. But wouldn’t that be:
“squish Oww! squish Oww!”
or, if Nick’s smart enough to figure it out:
“squish Ooooh! squish Ooooh!”
There’s no tactile receptors in the brain, unless Nick actually targeted his pain center.
Well, that’s one way to forget the whimseycorp movies
I don’t know. I’d be worried about getting my brain dirty, no matter how many times I washed my hands.
Oh, we all know Nick’s mind is filthy anyway. No worries.
“I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my squishy….”
And on a partly-sad, partly-joyous note, the Director’s Cut of ‘Narbonic’ just ended today. If anyone reading ‘Skin Horse’ has yet to read ‘Narbonic’, now you have the opportunity to do the world’s only complete *double* Archive Binge. (Definitely read the un-commented comic first.)
@Channing: All right, since you dared me: No, I would not be at least a little tempted to do the same thing in Nick’s shoes. VTOL aircraft don’t have shoes. I’m pretty sure he keeps his brain tank in his cockpit, which is where I would totally sit and poke my own brain if I were him.
You know, if we were to get a wallpaper of Nick driving Nick getting all Winry-style grease-monkey with maintenance on Nick, that would totally get my donation.
Just sayin’.
Nick, Nick Nick Nick, Nick Nick Nick Nick… Nickelode-
*ahem* Never mind.
Yo, Sweetheart, I heard you know Nick, so I put a Nick in your Nick.
Not even a little.